How to manage post-colonial African economies
For one, take economic management out of the control of neoliberal technocrats.
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Ghana’s royal visitors
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
A technocratic reformulation of colonialism
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.
Gods of Fiction
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
How did objects come to be in museums and who is entitled to own them?
The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?
Decolonizing streets
The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.
Nelson Mandela and US imperialism
In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.
The outflow of the colonial past
What will it take to get Germany to own up fully to the atrocities it committed during the Genocide in Namibia?
Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
It’s time to end the CFA franc
For France's former colonies in Africa to enjoy true independence, they need to control over their own money and budgets.
Discourse on colonialism
Today marks ten years since Aimé Césaire's death. What would he have thought about the state of the former French colonies today?
Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
The Third World Quarterly debacle
For those not familiar with academic publishing, prominent peer-reviewed journals are not expected to publish garbage promoting colonialism.
Blaxploitation, Italian style
The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy's film industry.
How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire
Irregular boundaries
First class cricket in South Africa, once a white man's preserve, is now technically open to all, but it is a game of money, dazzle, dancing girls and quick results.
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron's apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
A cure for the Dutch disease
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
We are all Helen Zille
Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.